Friday, November 7, 2014

Say it loud, say it proud

I hope they don't break this site too.
We all have our own stories that end with the same refrain.  I'll spare you the details, except that after wasting several hours performing thankless committee work (but doing it well, I hasten to add), I'm now repeating said work at a lower level of quality.  All thanks to our web development office losing the content I added to several web sites and generally making a hash out of the whole project.

Let's gather together and say with one voice:

Die IT, Die!

Harvard secretly photographed students to study attendance. From the Boston Globe.

Smile, brother.
They're taking attendance.
Harvard University has revealed that it secretly photographed some 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study of classroom attendance, an admission that prompted criticism from faculty and students who said the research was an invasion of privacy.

The clandestine experiment, disclosed publicly for the first time at a faculty meeting Tuesday night, came to light about a year-and-a-half after revelations that administrators had secretly searched thousands of Harvard e-mail accounts. That led the university to implement new privacy policies on electronic communication this spring, but another round of controversy followed the latest disclosure.

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